Replication Files for Justin de Benedictis-Kessner & Christopher Warshaw, "Politics in Forgotten Governments: The Partisan Composition of County Legislatures and County Fiscal Policies", Journal of Politics

1) Download all the files into a single directory (make sure to download them in their original formats)

2) Create a 'Figures' and 'Tables' subdirectory

3) Open R and set the working directory to wherever you saved the files

4) Run county_council_analysis.R and county_council_descriptives.R to recreate the tables and figures in our paper.

Please let us know if you have any questions!